From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,899fc98b2883af4a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-16 02:39:41 PST From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,comp.software-eng References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090612.261d5a5c@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305091549.48b9c5d9@posting.google.com> <7507f79d.0305121629.5b8b7369@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305130543.60381450@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305140549.3a87281b@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305141747.5680c577@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc1.akermar.com Message-ID: <3ec4b1c9$1@news.wineasy.se> X-Original-Trace: 16 May 2003 10:39:21 +0100, pc1.akermar.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@songnetworks.se NNTP-Posting-Host: news.wineasy.se X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news.wineasy.se Date: 16 May 2003 10:39:26 +0100 X-Trace: wineasy!newsfeed.wineasy.se!news.sto.telegate.se 1053077966 news.wineasy.se (16 May 2003 10:39:26 +0100) X-Complaints-To: abuse@songnetworks.se Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!rip!news.webusenet.com!news.stupi.se!news.stupi.se!wineasy!newsfeed.wineasy.se!news.sto.telegate.se!news.wineasy.se!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63895 comp.object:63523 comp.lang.ada:37378 comp.software-eng:19220 Date: 2003-05-16T10:39:26+01:00 List-Id: "soft-eng" wrote: > I don't agree that Ada is likely to be particularly useful > for catching errors in a professional environment -- say 2-3% > of the actual errors at best. If it's catching more than > that, I don't see how you can have good people. Are you sure that you know what you spend your time on? Or are you one of those who whips up 100 lines of code in a few hours. Brags about it and forget about the two days you spent getting it to work as it should? greetings,